Restitutions: "Let the Democratic Party pay..."

People aren't this stupid. This little game doesn't convince anyone.

 

...wouldn't be too sure about that.

...who is it that got elected president again?

 

I just wanted to say, this is a great post and I appreciated reading it.

 

I am not challenging any of your statements.

However if one is to note party changes throughout the decades and shouldn't represent todays politics (which I completely agree), then we should view the same with reparations. If reparations are to be paid, it should be paid directly from the estates who enslaved and given directly to those who were enslaved. Since both parties are long gone, we should be on from this topic.

 

People that thought he was the lesser of two evils.

Look at the polls. That's not gonna work again.

 

Its already been mentioned but this is obviously in response to the reparations debate going on in the Democratic primary.

 

Do you believe reparations are a form of punishment or a form of alleviating the pains of the aggrieved?

 

The aggrieved are long dead and gone

 

If you believe that socioeconomic situations are not often passed on.

 

I like the premise. I used to advocate for pro-Iraq war people to pay for it through tax increases so anti-war people wouldn't have to. Put your money where your mouth is. Maybe the pro-war taxpayers would be exempt from this increased tax if they agreed to be in the field in Iraq - just an idea.

Short of that, I thought that to fund the/(any) war every person should see a line item on their tax bill showing exactly how much it cost them. No more financing war through borrowing and inflation - let's tax people for it in real-time, dollar for dollar.

 

I believe blacks suffer a lot of issues from slavery. They aren't problems solved by throwing money at them. They are much deeper

 

What a great, great idea!
$700,000,000,000/year defense budget is too much. How much per taxpayer?

 

They are deep rooted problems. And I also believe that merely throwing money at the problem isn't going to solve issues so I guess we agree there.

I also believe that maybe reparations are not the best solution. We have to understand the root cause and the root cause is childhood education. The 400 year history has generated a black population that has a higher probability of being born into a low income neighborhood which leads to neighborhoods that pay lower in property taxes. The majority of our public k-12 funding comes from property taxes which generates a gradient of quality in public school education depending on the neighborhood you live and what school district you are zoned to. I think as a nation we should expand the Department of Education to massively fund these education starving communities. We need to build schools that these kids would be proud to attend. We need to hire teachers at a salary where they are willing to take on an additional burden.

 

Of course if you really knew history you'd know that those racist Democrats are Republicans today

 

I posted in the wrong thread.

 

Looks to be about $2100/citizen according to the budget and census numbers at the top of my ddg search. Not sure what it would be per taxpayer. It would no doubt be an insane amount, and might actually lead to an actual discussion about "defense" budget and how/when exactly the US should go to war. (Still waiting for Congress to declare war for.... uhh.... *checks notes*... every war since 1942.)

 

And this is because the playing field has been leveled already, as much as it can be by govt policies or programs. More govt is not the answer.

 

Seems like he didn't really do much research since those democrats became republicans.

 

i forgot about that yet he is still a member, talk about hypocrisy.

 

Heard an idea floated... using the "reparations" money to improve schools and healthcare access in inner cities...